Morning Briefing
For July 17, 2013
1. Republicans Surrender
Senate
Republicans, led by Mitch McConnell, have given up the filibuster for
executive nominations. Under a deal struck, the Democrats will not
deploy the nuclear option, but the Republicans will let the President
fill a number of positions the GOP has been blocking. Among the
positions will be the ever important National Labor Relations Board,
which has pursued a disastrous anti-free market agenda.
As
Senator Ted Cruz noted, the GOP preserved the right to surrender in the
future. What he means is that the GOP folded, but kept the appearance
of still having a filibuster for executive nominations in place.
Until the
GOP filibusters other executive nominees the President wants. They will
then either cave again or see the nuclear option then. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. Senate Republicans Cave: Filibuster ‘Compromise’ Keeps NLRB Firmly Under Union Control
Well, the
fix is in–and, frankly, it looks as though Senate Republicans have
caved in on everything–and have little to show for it.
In their
effort to “save” the filibuster, according to Politico, Senators John
McCain (RINO-AZ) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) brokered a deal that gives
Democrats nearly everything* they wanted.
In sum,
here’s how it shakes out: Harry Reid gets to keep the threat of using
the nuclear option at some later point. In exchange, the GOP gets to
keep the pretense of having the ability to filibuster in return for
caving in on five out of seven of Obama’s controversial appointments . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. George Zimmerman: Angela Corey’s Racial Peace Offering
There
are many unanswered questions in the handling of the persecution of
George Zimmerman by the State of Florida but two of the salient
questions are why was Angela Corey, who is noted for her intemperate
personality, selected to prosecute the case and why Angela Corey
dismissed an impaneled grand jury to wildly overcharge George Zimmerman
with second degree murder on her own volition?
I believe if we use Ockham’s (or Occam’s) Razor the answers will become obvious: racial politics. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Why Does the AARP Hate Seniors?
We know
the AARP is typically left-leaning and sided with the Obama
Administration on Obamacare and other policies that will wind up hurting
seniors.
But now
it seems they’re siding with the far-left environmental movement to put
people out of work and raise energy prices — something that has a direct
effect on seniors with fixed incomes.
The AARP
and Sierra Club worked together to stall nuclear energy legislation in
Iowa. They claimed the legislation would hurt seniors when, in reality,
the legislation would have incentivized low cost nuclear energy
production in Iowa.
The AARP
joined with the Sierra Club in Mississippi too. The issue was different,
but the operation was the same. The environmental group couldn’t get
its way so it brought in the AARP to scare seniors, who in turn called
legislators.
They
did it in New York and North Carolina and Virginia among others. Each
time, as the Sierra Club fell behind in its goals, it picked up the blue
hair phone, called the AARP, and had them scare the mess out of
seniors.
But it’s not just the Sierra Club. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. There Are No Indispensable Men
There are no indispensable men, but go to Washington and everyone treats everyone else as indispensable.
Mitch
McConnell and John Boehner have been in the United States Congress
since 1985. In that time the national debt has grown from
$1,823,103,000,000.00 to $16,066,241,407,385.89. In that time the GOP
went from being the part of small government to the party of slightly
smaller than the Democrats. No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, TARP,
the General Motors bailout, and so much more happened on their watch.
But
they remain and voters who vote party and not person keep supporting
them. But they are not indispensable. No man is indispensable. The
longer one stays in Washington though, the more desperate one becomes to
stay in Washington. They collaborate in a system of arrangements
whereby they get more power and more influence. Their staff leaves to K
Street creating a feedback loop. They and their Democratic counterparts
reward friends and steer policy not toward ideas and ideology, but
toward power with themselves in the center of it.
No man is indispensable. Mike Enzi (R-WY) is right there with them.
Mike
Enzi is a fine Republican, but he is not putting points on the board
for conservatives. We need more like Ted Cruz and less like . . . well .
. . Mike Enzi. We need less rudderless Republicans who shuffle around
at the direction of their leadership and lobbyist friends. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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